Visual Architectures

Common AWS architecture patterns — interactive diagrams. Pan, zoom, explore.

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D3 · High-PerfEC2ALBRDSCloudFrontAuto Scaling

3-Tier Web Application

Classic architecture: presentation (CloudFront + ALB), logic (EC2 Auto Scaling), and data (RDS Multi-AZ) tiers — the most common SAA exam pattern.

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👥

Users

🌐

CloudFront

CDN / Edge

🛡️

WAF

DDoS protect

⚖️

ALB

HTTP routing

🖥️

EC2 ASG

AZ-a

🖥️

EC2 ASG

AZ-b

🗄️

RDS Primary

Multi-AZ

🗄️

RDS Standby

Auto failover

🪣

Static assets

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NodesUsersCloudFrontWAFALBEC2 ASGRDS PrimaryRDS StandbyS3data flowstandby / sync